On 26/08/07, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
I've been wearing my Wikipedia golf shirt,
purchased I believe at Cafe
Press, for three years. It is as white as ever and has not suffered in
quality.
The main problem with the CafePress process (and that used by most
one-off printers) is that it's basically laser-printing to a shirt,
i.e. toner particles melted into the fibres. This can work very well
indeed, but is not going to be as good as silk-screen printing, which
becomes cost-effective at a few tens of shirts or so.
Of course, the other thing you're buying from CafePress is having
someone do all the ordering, packing and posting backend - not just
making sure you don't have a stock of maybe-saleable shirts.
- d.